Shakespeare's+Life+and+Times

Links to resources about Shakespeare's World -
- social. political, theatre arts, Elizabethan concepts, the Globe theatre, costumes, food, understandings etc. - strategies to support students in building thierr understandings of these aspects and how they help the reader's participation with the text.

To read more about his early life in Stratford and later times in London please visit the following website. []
 * William Shakespeare ** lived between 1564 & 1616. He is known to have written 38 [|plays] and 154 [|sonnets] as well as other written work. He was born in [|__Stratford-upon-Avon__] in the centre of England, and was educated at the local grammar school. In his 30s he moved to London where his success grew to the scale that now he is noted as one of the greatest writers of all time.

Information on Elizabethan England, the Globe Theatre and more is available at [|The Shakespeare Resource Center]

==//**Shakespeare's Life and Times**// introduces you to the world Shakespeare lived and worked in. This section of the Library is like a shelf of books, each of which is listed in the navigational bar to the left of your screen. Each book, in turn, is divided into chapters dealing with related topics.==

[[image:http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/images/shSoest2.jpg width="152" height="196" caption="Shakespeare portrait"]]
The Family Tree of the Shakespeare family

Life, family and more []